Supermarket chains Tesco and Asda have withdrawn Halloween outfits featuring mental health issues from sale.
Asda's "mental patient fancy dress costume" is no longer available, and Tesco followed suit by removing its "psycho ward" outfit.
Following criticism, both stores apologised and agreed to make donations to the mental health charity, Mind.
The charity, which complained that such costumes "fuel" stigma, will receive Â£25,000 from Asda.
Tesco has not said how much it will donate.
The Â£20 Asda outfit included ragged clothing, fake blood, a mask and a fake meat cleaver while Tesco's orange boiler suit came with a plastic jaw restraint and offered to "complete the look" with a machete.
Online retailer Amazon had also advertised the "psycho ward" outfit, but later said the costume was "not available".

As a "crazy" person myself I find this whole outrage to be bullshit. Its obviously fucking cartoonish but the mental health "advocacy" groups saw a chance to increase their exposure for a moment so of course went for it and the money that exposure could bring.

I live in England and this country is a pile of shit now, u cannot mention anything to do with color, race or religion, we have the most CCTV cameras of any country in the world and everyday our rights are getting stripped away, the minorities are taken over and we do nothing about it!

I live in England and this country is a pile of shit now, u cannot mention anything to do with color, race or religion, we have the most CCTV cameras of any country in the world and everyday our rights are getting stripped away, the minorities are taken over and we do nothing about it!

I live in England and this country is a pile of shit now, u cannot mention anything to do with color, race or religion, we have the most CCTV cameras of any country in the world and everyday our rights are getting stripped away, the minorities are taken over and we do nothing about it!

I live in England and this country is a pile of shit now, u cannot mention anything to do with color, race or religion, we have the most CCTV cameras of any country in the world and everyday our rights are getting stripped away, the minorities are taken over and we do nothing about it!

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GB strikes me as being only a decade or so ahead of the US down the path of rot. We're catching up fast.

As a "crazy" person myself I find this whole outrage to be bullshit. Its obviously fucking cartoonish but the mental health "advocacy" groups saw a chance to increase their exposure for a moment so of course went for it and the money that exposure could bring.

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as a fellow crazy person, i also say this is bullshit. especially since that's exactly what i look like when i sneak back into my basement window at 3AM.

“We apologize to customers who may have been offended by the name of the costume and we are pulling the costume from our shelves,” a Walmart spokesperson confirmed for Yahoo Shine.

The costume, which consisted of a black tutu with purple trim and a headband with matching ears, was neither sexy nor zoologically accurate. But it didn’t stop people from freaking out after the Consumerist first reported on its existence, based on an angry reader’s tip.